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Virus-Surface Interactions in Dynamic Environments (V-SIDE)
Since the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing body of scientific literature has reported on the pre-infection viability and stability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, qualitatively indicating the role of physical surfaces in transmission of the virus. The nature of the surfaces (e.g., paper v/s plastic v/s metals) and their properties (smooth v/s rough), are believed to play a critical role in determining the stability and viability during the pre-infection phase. Virus-surface interactions are inherently biophysical in nature wherein the dynamics of the environmental parameters (va...
Visual Public Protection Disaster Relief and Critical Infrastructure
The aim of the Visual PCI project is to develop an IT platform to assist crisis managers and critical infrastructure planners. The platform will provide a new approach to risk assessment and will visually present the essential elements of Public Protection and Disaster Recovery (PPDR) resources and the Critical Infrastructure (CI) functions as required by crisis management and Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and planning. Real time data input will provide situational awareness. Simulations will support planning and crisis management by considering population behaviour as well as de...
Watch out: Don't catch the bug - Contact tracking for fun and credit
Epidemic models are highly predictive if behavioural assumptions and properties of the disease are known; however, behaviour of individuals is notoriously hard to predict and depends strongly on environmental factors. We propose to design a privacy friendly mobile app that can collect data to enrich epidemic models through a fun game. Moreover, the same privacy enhancing protocols will be helpful to use this app to assist the response to an actual threat.
Xcope - Corona-Home-Control
The project is to develop an app that allows people to communicate with quarantined doctors. So you don't have to leave home if you have symptoms of a coronavirus and don't infect other people. We are building a stethoscope for the smartphone so that they can auscultate their lungs and also send it to their doctor. If we have enough data, we can also build machine learning or deep learning models to automatically detect when the coronavirus is causing pneumonia (then it becomes dangerous). This allowed people to be treated at home and only go to a hospital if the disease worsened.
Yes we care - Oral history with health workers in Luxembourg
While the social and economic consequences of the Covid pandemic cannot yet be determined, there is no longer any doubt that it is a 'historic event'. The C2DH has therefore embarked on a collection of different sources that are currently being produced. A team has begun to collect testimonies from people working in the medical and health care sector. The pandemic is indeed shedding light on how the hospital and care systems function. Flattening the curve in order to allow the health system to cope with covid19 was, and is, one the defining slogans of the pandemic. The project, which has...
Young People and COVID-19 (YAC) - Social, Economic, and Health Consequences of Infection Preventi...
Whereas adolescents and young adults are less affected by severe progressions of COVID-19, the measures to prevent and control the infection interfere disproportionally with their development. There are short-term and long-term impacts on their educational and professional careers and their psycho-social development (gaining autonomy from parents, building relationships). Non-intended negative social, economic and health consequences by the measures taken to prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic are therefore particularly likely for young people. It is important to identify and understa...
inhibition of inflammation
Acute lung injury is a therapeutically high unmet need indication caused by uncontrolled inflammation with high expression of mediators to promote inflammation, called cytokines. If not reversed, it leads to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as major reason for death in patients with COVID-19. Nekonal validated specific acting compounds and biomarkers to detect and stopp uncontrolled hyperimmune activation at early stage.
reZilience
Supply chains facilitate the flows of goods and services and as such they are at the core of ensuring economic prosperity. The resilience of supply chains is fundamental to the success of companies and even more importantly to the livelihood of societies. The current pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of our existing supply chains, and in this context work package 13, supply chains and logistics, of the COVID-19 task force is tasked, among others, with the assessing the state of supply chains in Luxembourg. At the moment, WP13 is developing a quick survey to gain basic insights into ...